Transcript Introduction to supportDM - University of East London

Supporting RDM through
training staff and students at
UEL
Stephen Grace & John Murtagh, UEL
Jisc Managing Research Data Programme Workshop, Aston University 25-26 March 2013
► TraD project
• Embedding good RDM practice at UEL
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Create, deliver and evaluate Training
doctoral students in Psychology
Training taught students in Geoinformatics
Generic workshop in Graduate School
• Training course for liaison librarians
(supportDM)
• Seek to adopt in curricula and training
programmes
► Psychology 1
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First Intro class included 27 professional
doctoral students in clinical psychology.
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Second Intro class included 12 professional
doctoral students in educational psychology
and 1 PhD student.
► Psychology 2
The Introduction lasted from an hour to two hours
and re-purposed useful slides previously featured
in other JISC-funded RDM projects in psychology
1) Data Management Planning and Storage for
Psychology (DMSPpsych)
2) DMTpsych: Postgraduate training for research
data management in the psychological sciences
► Psychology 3
Our online course covered the following MANTRA
modules designed by Xerte & delivered via
Moodle:
1. Research Data Explained
2. Organising Data
3. Documentation and Metadata
4. Storage and Security
5. Data protection, rights & access
(Adapted slightly to include the data fabrications of social
psychologists Dirk Stapel and Dirk Smeesters)
► supportDM
• Blended learning approach
• Introductory meeting ►
• Online hour-long learning module ► Using
Moodle (VLE) and Xerte templates
• Reinforcing task(s) ►
• Group meeting to review session and prepare
for the next
• Repeated over five modules with a
concluding meeting
• Developed with DCC
Who is supportDM for?
• In our context, aimed at subject librarians
• One per academic School (8 Librarians)
• Principal library contact with academics
• Focus is on teaching and learning
• Stephen’s Research Services Librarian role
• Also includes 2 Commonwealth Fellows & 1 Assistant
Librarian
• May help raise awareness in other library staff
• Repositories, metadata, digital archives, collection
development, customer services…
• Each online module may help inform other service
contexts
• IT services, research office, compliance, ethics…
► Geoinformatics
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Devising RDM Training programme for Masters
taught students
Close collaboration with a Professor and Senior
Research Fellow for inclusion into curriculum
Online Moodle-only delivery
Builds on and formalises what is being taught in
the Centre for Geo-Information Studies
Thank you for listening
Find us at www.uel.ac.uk/trad
Our blog at datamanagementuel.wordpress.com
Trad is funded by Jisc, and is a project of UEL’s
Library and Learning Services with the Digital
Curation Centre